JUST days before celebrating her 104th birthday, Redland Bay resident Annie Hudson shared her secrets to a happy life.
The Yarrabee Centre of Care resident says hard work, having a loving partner and eating well are the key.
Ms Hudson was born at Undercliff, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom on July 23 and lived through World War I and II.
She has a good memory and remembers the first Zepplin being shot down when it came to bomb London.
Ms Hudson said she could not believe she was turning 104.
“I am a bit bewildered,” she said.
“I’m just amazed I haven’t got dementia and have a good memory.”
Ms Hudson said she remembered women protesting on the side of the street to get the vote.
“I was 8 feet away when they were chaining themselves up,” she said.
After the war, Ms Hudson moved with her family back to Bradford to live with her grandparents for a few years.
Ms Hudson’s brother was born in 1923 and went into the RAF during World War II to be a navigator on the Lancaster bombers.
After leaving school Ms Hudson worked in the woollen mills as a weaver alongside her mother.
Ms Hudson said she quit the work seven years after she married the love of her life Kenneth Hudson, an electrician, on April 11, 1936.
“We have had a good life,” she said.
“My husband would help feed and bathe the boys (John and Roy).
“I lived a clean life – I never smoked and I used to have my own garden and my own vegetables.
“We never went hungry.”
Their son John and his family moved to the Redlands in 1971 and the rest of the family followed three years later, settling in Wellington Point and later at Capalaba.
Ms Hudson’s husband passed away in 1992 after 56 years of marriage.
She has four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Ms Hudson said she encouraged people to maintain a healthy lifestyle and credited her hard work over the years for her long and happy life.
Jocelyn Garcia
Jocelyn is a journalist at the Redland City Bulletin, covering education issues and school stories. She was a former journalist at Beaudesert Times, reporting about crime, schools and agriculture.
Jocelyn is a journalist at the Redland City Bulletin, covering education issues and school stories. She was a former journalist at Beaudesert Times, reporting about crime, schools and agriculture.
